DIY rack enclosure extrusion

[shaggy]

It's a conspiracy against us tin bashers, I tell you! 8>]

Joe at Isel is sending me an invoice tomorrow. He said their dimensions are based on Euro standards. Fine, some sizes simply won't work, others I can adapt to.

Given still-current 1-3/4" rack unit increments, this sort of creeping metrification (while simultaneously deleting or simply no longer catering for the traditional standard) seems like another part of the conspiracy (only partly kidding).

 

[ruffrecords]

Fischer Elektronik do an extruded case with a slide in top panel:



They also do a couple of profiles similar to the Isel ones but they only seem to be supplied with one particular enclosure:



Cheers

Ian

 

[scott2000]

Isel Extrusions (see link in post above) makes two sizes of side extrusion, w/ heights of 42mm and 56mm. (The 42mm would be probably suitable for sides of a 1U high rack enclosure.)

For 2U and higher enclosures they make two types of corner extrusion material, to which side and top panels can be attached..

I have a tube of a couple of sticks of this stuff from years ago..I remember testing it with some sheets and it seemed to be good. Just never got around to using it.. Guess I need to look into it more....seem to remember it taking a bigger sheet but I can't recall....
https://www.isel-us.com/enclosure-profiles/16x16x1000-extrusion-enclosure-corner-profile

they were $16.50 each in 2021
Shipping was $26 and change to me...

here was my contact but it was years ago
Best regards,
George Klein,
Isel USA Inc,
69 Bloomingdale Rd
Hicksville, NY 11801
[email protected]
P: 516-595-7497
F: 516-595-7498

 

[shaggy]

I have a tube of a couple of sticks of this stuff from years ago..I remember testing it with some sheets and it seemed to be good. Just never got around to using it.. Guess I need to look into it more....seem to remember it taking a bigger sheet but I can't recall....
https://www.isel-us.com/enclosure-profiles/16x16x1000-extrusion-enclosure-corner-profile

they were $16.50 each in 2021
Shipping was $26 and change to me...

here was my contact but it was years ago
Best regards,
George Klein,
Isel USA Inc,
69 Bloomingdale Rd
Hicksville, NY 11801
[email protected]
P: 516-595-7497
F: 516-595-7498

Same name is on their website, but I spoke to a Joe Griffin, nice bloke. Phone number is almost the same except the last four digits are -7495. You can cut that extrusion to length (slowly and carefully) in a cheap mitre/chop saw with a carbide tipped blade. Panels slide in and are mostly flat with maybe one bend in front for stiffness, very easy to do.

 

[scott2000]

I spoke to a Joe Griffin, nice bloke

it looks like he was Cc: on a couple of the correspondence..
Yeah I picked up an old Sescom monitor deal with the little speaker that was made using these types of extrusions and had to make one myself....
Of course after the Sescom became something else..lol
maybe one day I'll get to it....